“Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death: The Arts, Religion and Society in the Mid-Fourteenth Century” takes on Italian art in the aftermath of the bubonic plague. The calamity ...

The art historian, Millard Meiss, argued that the first significant painting made in Florence in the wake of the Black Death was Andrea Orcagna's Strozzi Altarpiece, in Santa Maria Novella, (1354-57).

Gruesome graves and petrifying paintings - the medieval art of death ... And then came the final blow - in 1348, a sailor arrived in Weymouth, unwittingly bringing with him the Black Death.

After the Black Death, it continued to strike large numbers of Europeans, most notably in London in 1665. The Third Plague Pandemic, the world's last major outbreak, began in the mid-19th century ...